Try-out pad for gun-stocks and other articles.



" TED STATES rarer oren.

ROLLA O. HEIKES, OF DAYTON, OHIO.

TRY-OUT PAD FOR GUN -STOCKS AND OTHER ARTICLES.

Patented Mar. 12, 1918.

` Application led April 13, 1917. Serial No. 161,865.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, BOLLA O. HEiKEs, citizen of the United States, residing at Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Try-Out Pads for Gun- Stocks and other Articles, of which the following is a speciiication. A

My invention relates to ire arms and more particularly to a vtry-out pad for gun stocks.

It is quite` essential that marksmen shall Y have a gun stock properly fitted and shaped Vto his physical peculiarities and deviations in order to attain best results. A man whose neck is abnormally short will require a different degree of drop in the stock from one who is provided by nature with an unusuallylong neck. y Likewise a broad shouldered man' and one of narrow shoulders will `not use to the best ladvantage a stock of the same proportion. The contour of the" face or cheek and the height of the cheek bone also are controllingfactors in the developmentof a properly proportioned gun stock. `Marksmen generally and particularly perf sons so engaged professionally are extremely critical and observant of such niceties of l proportion. To meet, such requirements a gun stock may require a greater or less de- -gree of drop that is angular inclination to the lineal direction of the barrel. `necessitate a stock of greater or less height measured perpendicular to the direction of the barrels or perpendicular to the general line of drop` independent of the degree of suchV drop. Such stock may also involve variations of thickness either over the entire stock or perhaps only atcertain localized points. y Y

These variations of proportion to meet therequirement of dierent marksmen are subservient to no particular rule or to mathematical development, but may be determined only by repeated tests and experiment. `To develop the proper proportions and shape involves repeated trials and nel fcessitates both adding to and deducting from different portions of the stock.- To make such changes in an actual wood stock involves considerable expense and dificulty as well as requiring considerable time; such changes cannot ordinarily be made quickly at the proving ground.

It may One of the'primary objects of the present invention is to enable the contour of the stockV to be readily and quickly varied by the marksman himself without the aid of skilled mechanics, and at the moment of actual tests either by adding to or deduct.- ing from the bulk of thestock at such points as may be thought desirable. It may be necessary tomake such changes repeatedly and in different locations before the proper contour is iinally developed. One of the objects is to enable the marksman to develop a pattern stock accurately suited and tted to his particular needs from which a permanent stock may be subsequently made by the skilled mechanic.

f Further objects of the invention is to si1nplify the development of special stocks as Well as the means and mode of operation whereby they will not only be cheapened in construction, but may be more rapidly and accurately proportioned, capable of being employed by persons unskilled in variable shape turning or gun stock manufacture and whereby the same material may be re-used to develop aV diierent contour for a Vdifferent gun or marksman. n n

With the above primary and other incidental objects in view as will more fully ap pear in the specification, the invention consists of the features of construction, the parts and combinations thereof, and the process or method of operation or their forth in the claims.

Referring to the drawings Figure ll is a perspective view of a gun stock to which the variable try-out pad construction forming the subject matter hereof has been applied. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view of thestock and scabbard with the inserted pads or filling material variously disposed.

Like parts are indicated by similar char equivalents, as hereinafter described and set n,

acters of reference throughout the several views. Y v

Referring to the drawings 1 is a gun stock ofstandard proportions or if so desired it may comprise a dummy or foundationbody of approximately the shape of the standardstock. Inclosing this stock or foundation. form is a sleeve or scabbard 2 of yelastic material preferably rubber, opened at'its opposite ends, through which the gnu may be introduced barrel viorei'nost. .4 This 3. In a device of the character described, an elastic scabbard or sleeve open at both its ends through which a gun or like article may be introduced barrel foremost, said elastic scabbard or sleeve being normally of less peripheral size than the stock of the gun `or other article inserted therein whereby r said scabbardor sleeve will cling tothe in- Hserted body, andindependent movable inserts introduced Within the elastic sleeve or scabbard and held in adjusted position by j the clamping action of .the sleeve or scabbard. y

4. The `combination with a gun stock, of an elastic sleeve or scabbard open at its opposite ends inclosing said stock throughV which the gun is introduced barrel foremost, and means for distending said elastic scabbard or sleeve to change the external contour of the body.

5. The combination with a gun stock, of an elastic scabbard or sleeve inclosing the gun stock, and one or more independent, movable inserts introduced intermediate the stock and the elastic sleeve to change the eX- ternal contour of the latter, substantially as specified.

6. The combination with a gun stock, of an elastic scabbard or sleeve inclosin the gun stock, said scabbard or sleeve havlng a hose-like extension adapted to inclose the .Y

grip of the stock, and means Jfor locally expanding said scabbard or sleeve substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 5 day of prii, A. D. 1917.

ROBERT E. CoWDEN, BERTHA W. FRY.

copies of thispatent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. A 

